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In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survived (AP article confirms Maui police blocked escape routes.)
Associated Press ^
| Updated 3:01 PM CDT, August 24, 2023
| REBECCA BOONE, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, CLAUDIA LAUER AND CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER
Posted on 08/27/2023 3:11:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
THE POLICE MURDERED HUNDREDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN.
Just want to be clear about this.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:14:28 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
To: MeganC
I don’t believe the police did it with malice aforethought.
The people giving them orders, however, did.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:16:59 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Doesn’t excuse them of the consequences of their actions and the deaths they caused.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:18:22 PM PDT
by
mrmeyer
(You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Following orders is not an excuse.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:18:31 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why would Police Block Exit Routes?
To: mrmeyer; All
I want the police to go to prison for ten years.
I want the Maui government officials hung.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:22:57 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The only thing I can think of is that the police were thinking that they needed to keep the road clear for emergency vehicles.
However, those vehicles would be coming from Kaanapali, which is at least 10 minutes away IF they weren't already spread thin working on their own fires.
At EVERY level of government, the leaders made exactly the wrong decisions:
- They failed to cut the power to the power lines.
- They failed to turn on the warning sirens.
- They failed to turn on the water supplies.
- They failed to let evacuating citizens access the only roads out.
This was a complete breakdown of a government run by Democrats.
-PJ
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:23:15 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: tennmountainman
Why would Police Block Exit Routes? To exterminate inconvenient landowners who refused to sell to Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:25:03 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
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To: Political Junkie Too
It was not a breakdown.
It was a plan.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:25:32 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:27:19 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The survivors that went around the cops…good chance some of them took videos to ID the cops.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:27:34 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: MeganC
Did the police escape?
Actually, I think this was more incompetence (by people above the cops) than malice.
Hawaii is a Democrat hell-hole of incompetent privileged bureaucrats, some racially privileged, some privileged because they’re the sons of what we would call in the South “good ol’ boys.” None of them…water, emergency management, fire department, police…functioned and hundreds died horribly because of them.
The only thing I want to see is accountability. But under President Senile and the Dems (Hawaii is a one party-state, like most of the US now), there won’t be any..
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:29:02 PM PDT
by
livius
To: Political Junkie Too
At EVERY level of government, the leaders made exactly the wrong decisions:
You left out one. At 4:45 pm, when the fire was out of control, Maui officials issued a "shelter in place" order.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It was not a breakdown. It was a plan. I'm not there yet.
To believe that, I'd have to believe that we have Osama bin Laden types running the government willing to kill thousands in a very public display of inhumanity for personal gain.
-PJ
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:37:13 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Small town. 12,000 people, 5 square miles. Three weeks later, 1000 people are “missing”. Okay, take a bow American press, really getting to the bottom of things! Lol.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:39:03 PM PDT
by
americas.best.days...
( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
You left out one. Thanks.
I left out a second one, reports that the Maui fire department contained the fire, but then went home instead of remaining on-site and monitoring the area for flare-ups.
-PJ
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:39:33 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: Political Junkie Too
The city trimmed all the brush away from the billionaires’ properties and the power lines, left the water on and turned off the power when the 70 mph winds kicked in.
The city left brush touching the power lines and the peasants’ properties, turned off the water and left the power on when the 70 mph winds kicked in.
The billionaires and their properties survived, the peasants and their properties were turned to ash.
If you aren’t there by now, you’ll never get there.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:39:50 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
To: MeganC
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:40:38 PM PDT
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
To: americas.best.days...
If it doesn’t advance the cause of “The Revolution”, they will not cover the story.
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posted on
08/27/2023 3:42:39 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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